ROCKPro64 DOA

[ajtravis]

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When you say your RockPro64 is DOA, when you apply power is there any activity at all. I'm using my board booting off Armbian Focal 5.10 kernel via an SD card. I've a beefy 12v 5a power supply attached, sourced elsewhere to avoid under voltage issues. Have you tried an alternative power supply just to rule that issue out. Keep the board as stripped down as possible before you attempt to boot it.

Hi,

There was no activity at all when I wrote an eMMC image and tried to boot from it, but a friend managed to get it to boot Debian Buster from an SD card: I was expecting to see Uboot output from the UART on the serial lines, when booting from the eMMC but there was nothing. We are now trying to reflash the SPI to run Uboot from there. Seems it's not DOA after all, but it was not clear to me that I would have to boot from an SD card even if I had created an eMMC image. Seems that, by default, the ROCKPro64 will not boot from eMMC.

Thanks,

  Tony.